E: The Preposition لِ Meaning “belonging to”
لِ has another meaning in addition to “to.” It is used to mean “to belong to.” Normally, when we want to say the Arabic equivalent […]
Part 1 – Back to the Basics
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D: Prepositions with Pronoun Suffixes
Well, guess what. Those same pronoun suffixes which we have used for possession (non-demonic) and as direct object pronouns can also be written with prepositions. […]
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C: Direct Object Pronouns
The possessive pronouns which we studied in Chapter Three are also used as direct object pronouns. They are written at the end of the verb. […]
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B: The Dual of Nouns, Adjectives, Pronouns, and Verbs
Plurals in Arabic always refer to three or more things. Arabic has special forms to deal with two things. Americans hate the dual. However, unlike […]
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A: The Rules of Agreement in Arabic
Whether you realize it or not, you already know most of the rules of agreement in Arabic. There is really only one more thing you […]
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F: The Words كلٌّ and بَعْضٌ
كُلٌّ is a noun which means “each” or “every” and sometimes means “all” depending upon the context. When كل is followed by an indefinite noun, […]
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E: Plural Demonstrative Pronouns
The demonstrative pronouns هذا and هذه have a lovely broken plural. The plural for both of these words is هؤلاء. This plural is only used […]
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D: Broken Plurals
I briefly alluded to broken plurals at the beginning of this chapter. These are plurals which arise from internal and sometimes external changes to the […]
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C: Masculine Sound Plurals in Idaafas and with Pronoun Suffixes
How would you say “the correspondents of the newspaper” in Arabic? What YOU would probably do is what most American students of Arabic usually do: […]
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B: Verb-Subject Agreement
You will like this. This is easy. The typical Arabic sentences begins with a verb. In Arabic such a sentence is known as جملة فِعليّة […]
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A: Sound Plurals
A sound plural is a suffix which is added to the end of the word in order to indicate the plural. The suffixes reflect gender […]
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F: The Pausal Form Revisited
In Chapter One we briefly discussed what is known as the “pausal form“. We noted that the case endings of words at the end of […]